Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,

This is one of the nicest kids I've ever met, but his gambling addiction led him to make a terrible, terrible mistake. There's so much good in this kid. It easily outweighs this one bad mistake.

This isn't over yet. We'll keep fighting to make sure that this sneaky strategy is stopped in its tracks. Rather than improving national security as the rest of the bill does, cutting off the most promising offshore wind project in the country would harm it. This won't help America break its addiction to oil and reliance on foreign sources of energy.

The vaccine works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain. This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine.

Howard Zinn

The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton.

There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction or forward. She would say just a comforting word, give you a hug, no matter what you looked like.

Will Adams

There's a huge chasm between us and big business. They're addicted to cheap labor, which illegal aliens provide. It's in their interests to keep the border porous and to keep the labor flowing.

This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Charlie Miller

This is the president who has said we are addicted to oil. But if this is the best we can do, we aren't going to get out of rehab.

David Robertson

This is the most addictive form of gambling that's even been invented. You've got a casino in your home now. You don't have to get in your car or go somewhere.

This is why this fight is really a social justice issue for me. In the end, millions of people are addicted to killing themselves and multinational corporations are profiting from it.

As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Marie Lu

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Darby Stanchfield

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

Janet Reno

This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner, ... Not only did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human life.

Elton John

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

Ellen Burstyn

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Jeremy Collier

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Jean Cocteau

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Gene Tierney

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Fergie

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

Francis Chan

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

If Hoosiers can't get enough basketball in Indianapolis this March, they've got an addiction that we can't help them with.

I don't tend to use my cell phone for things like that (downloading games and applications). Plus, I'm far too addicted to my computer.

Maulik Pancholy

I'd say I watch a fair amount of TV, but I'm not a TV addict by any means.

Albert Camus

I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.

Lisa Whelchel

I am addicted to scrapbooking. I document just about everything my kids do or have done, either in photos, journaling or memorabilia.

I am addicted to 'Halo' and play almost every night. By giving it up, I will have more time to reflect and to also lead a faith-sharing group.

Jeffrey Kluger

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Wink Martindale

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.